Thank you
I love this world Mary Kennedy has created so much that I find myself constantly checking to see if the next book is out yet. They're quick yet charming reads featuring alpha protectors and the potential partners they feel drawn to protect. She also does such a fantastic job at providing us with stress free reads even while addressing difficult subject matter.
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While some might spend pages upon pages describing a Sexual Assault she gets that it's not necessary to do that. Instead, the initial assault of the h barely receives a paragraph as it's happening on the singular half a page the SA occurs during. I was gearing up to skip a chapter once the assault began, but didn't need to. Instead, the focus remains where it should be, on the recovery of the SA character and developing storyline. This is something I cannot praise her enough for. We tend to give writers like GRRM a free pass when he constantly uses SA as a plot devise rather than questioning why they felt it was necessary to draw out the violence in infinite detail. It's refreshing to see authors who don't feel like they need to rely on drawn out tropes that can be triggering for survivors of SA to support their writing because they know true quality of their writing, how to connect with their readers, and how to trust that their readers can put 2 and 2 together without forcing them to feel so overwhelmed by a character's trauma that they relive their own and find they need to put down a book and return to it at another time.
Please keep them coming. Looking forward to the next installment and hoping we won't be saying goodbye to Irene and Mathew just yet.